Machine — Hand Poke An electric motor drives the needle, at speeds between fifty and three thousand insertions a minute. It is here for contrast. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/method/machine/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Godna — Hand Poke Northern and central India: women's marks, pricked by women, carried out of India to the Caribbean by indentured labour. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/tradition/godna/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Shway Yoe — Hand Poke The Scottish administrator who wrote the fullest English description of Burmese tattooing, under a Burmese pen name, in 1882. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/person/shway-yoe/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 52K
What counts as hand-poked — สักด้วยมือ เว็บนี้ชื่อว่าสักด้วยมือ แต่ครึ่งหนึ่งของธรรมเนียมบนนี้ไม่ได้แทง นี่คือเส้นที่ลากไว้ และเหตุผลว่าทำไมเส้นนี้เถียงได้ nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/th/issue/what-counts/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 54K
The Veiqia Project — Hand Poke The collective of Fijian women artists who researched veiqia in collections and archives and brought the practice back. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/org/veiqia-project/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 50K
The depictions — Hand Poke Murals, plates, figurines and photographs — what a picture of a tattoo is evidence of, and what it is not. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/depictions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
Japan outlaws it — Hand Poke Japan banned tattooing while presenting itself to the world, and foreigners immediately travelled there to be tattooed. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/story/meiji-ban/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
The open questions — Hand Poke Questions this site cannot settle: whose designs, whose hands, whose photographs, and what counts as hand-poked at all. nanobotco.github.io/hand-poke/questions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 51K
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